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When some feature, level, monster or something else was added to a game in some form, but ultimately ended up getting cut out. Except instead of deleting the content entirely, the programmers just removed all legitimate ways to access it, leaving pieces of it in the game's assets (textures, models, sprites, code references, etc.). For instance, a particular enemy that is fully implemented but never spawns anywhere, or a level present within the game's files that cannot be accessed by normal gameplay means. This can happen for any number of reasons: The file structure or memory allocation system of the console or game engine made it a large technical hassle to remove the content entirely The content was implemented but it didn't work right, literally (buggy, broken, etc) or figuratively (concept was bad, style isn't right, lore got retconned, etc) There was a legal issue, such as an expired license or an unforeseen copyright violation The content had so many behind-the-scenes references that removing it would have been a major undertaking The developers ran out of time or money to finish the content as designed The remaining bits of data or map could sometimes result in false cases of Notice This, and players getting an Empty Room Psych out of it. If the fans get talking, a mythical access to it can become an Urban Legend of Zelda. In other media this takes the form of What Could Have Been. Dummied out content is sometimes accessible with skill, patience, or merciless exploiting of glitches, but usually requires modding or hacking of some sort. As with anything on the Internet, a wiki exists to document all of a given games' dummied out and unused content, with users data mining a games' files and uploading them to The Cutting Room Floor wiki for all the world to see. This also applies to content that is present in the data and inaccessible, but is planned to be accessible in the future. This happens most frequently with live service games and games with DLC, since references to future DLC or content meant for a future patch are often used in the code of the base release. If a dummied out concept or content gets reused for other works, it becomes a Development Gag. See also Minus World. Game Mods will sometimes reopen access to it. Compare Orphaned Reference. |
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Nobody Here has three◊ eyeball◊ designs◊ that didn't make it to the final version of "Eyeball". | |
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An example from the CD era: In the liner notes for Bad Hair Day by "Weird Al" Yankovic, the "special thanks" section mentions Weezer, due to the fact that Al incorporated their song "Buddy Holly" into the polka medley on the album, "The Alternative Polka". Unfortunately for Al, the band's manager asked the band, at Rivers Cuomo's request, to remove the snippet at the last minute, long after the liner notes had already been printed. | |
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Since .hack takes place in a fictional MMO, it similarly makes sense that there are examples here as well. In .hack//IMOQ, Kite has the unique Bracelet item, which functionally allows him to hack The World (the game within the game) to affect enemies. One of the possible results when he does so is to get a free item, and some of these items have names that look like placeholders, and which cannot be obtained in any other fashion, and these are generally much more powerful than any other option. It's never outright said, but the suggestion is that these were dummied out of The World, and Kite's use of the Bracelet lets him access these anyway. Most obvious is SWORD, which can be obtained first late in .hack//Mutation in high-level lambda server dungeons. | |
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The Blu-ray of Mars Needs Moms contains an audio track with Seth Green as Milo. It is inaccessible through playing it on a Blu-ray player, but can be accessed through ripping the disc. | |
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Wreck-It Ralph is set in video games, so naturally it has a few examples. One is the major character Vanellope Von Schweetz, a character from the racing game Sugar Rush. She glitches in and out when emotionally compromised and isn't allowed to race because she's not a legitimate racer from the game, despite racing being her dream. She lives in Diet Cola Mountain, a dummied-out bonus level. This was actually Invoked on her by King Candy, who's the real imposter, being Turbo, a character from a removed racing game who invaded Sugar Rush because he couldn't stand the spotlight being on someone other than him. Vanellope is indeed a real character fully intended to be in the game, but when Turbo took over, he messed with her code, making everyone forget her and taking her place as the ruler of Sugar Rush. | |
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Both the Power Rangers Megaforce Legendary Morpher and Power Rangers Dino Charge Dino Charge Morpher have sounds that aren't triggered by any of the available Ranger Keys or Dino Chargers, including holiday greetings and in the case of the Dino Charge Morpher, a message reminding kids to brush their teeth, likely from a scrapped promotional item to be given out with toothpaste or at dentist offices. | |
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The Binding of Isaac: Challenge #45 (nicknamed DELETE THIS based on its Steam achievement name) is intended to look like a piece of dummied out content. It doesn't appear on the menu properly, instead being a blank space you can scroll to. The achievement for unlocking it is a note to the publisher to delete this data before the game goes live, while the one for beating it has a placeholder name and blank description. The challenge is meant to showcase the item TMTRAINER, but also features randomized floor appearances and music, sometimes looking like a full-on Minus World. It can even spawn actual half-programmed dummied out enemies. The only proof that it's intended is beating is needed for 100% completion. The challenge is related to Tainted Eden, a faux Glitch Entity added in the same DLC. | |
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Similarly, "hacking" Kamen Rider Ghost's Ghost Driver belt revealed a bunch of historical figures whose powers were never invoked in the TV series but appeared in the arcade game Ganbarizing, like Galileo Galilei, King Kamehameha, and Santa Claus. One "hero" whose powers never appeared in either the series or the game was Kamen Rider's creator, Shotaro Ishinomori. | |
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In the early days of portable tape cassette players after the release of the Sony Walkman, several companies tried cashing in by taking existing models of cassette players/recorders and simply removing features like recorder, speaker, stereo out, etc. in order to enable portable playback. One such model, as discovered by Techmoan, was the Technics M1 Co-Deck, which, as he discovered during his teardown video on the device, still contains a tape erase head and a button for the record function, the latter of which is covered up by a piece of plastic on the front, due to it using the same cassette deck as the Technics M205 and M24 home stereo casette decks. | |
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In Adventure: The Inside Job, video game characters love to spend their free time in dummied-out locations, since players would never bother them while they're here. | |
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If you poke around The Best Page in the Universe's pages' HTML source, you'll find a variety of commented-out bits. | |
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One of the most famous is Hoist from Transformers: Armada, which was intended to have a geared gimmick similar to that of Cyclonus. | |
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"How Could An Angel Break My Heart" by Toni Braxton originally featured producer Babyface adlibbing in the background, but he ultimately felt his vocals were distracting from Braxton's performance, so he replaced his parts with Kenny G on the saxophone. Nonetheless, the Babyface version is included on the single as the "remix" despite technically being the other way around. | |
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When the Transformers design team discovered that the locking point for the first Transformers: Prime Ultra Magnus' gun didn't have enough traction to hold it in hammer mode, the port was made shallower so that it couldn't be used and a new one was put above it in a more functional location. | |
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Another R.E.M. example happened not with an LP release, but a cassette one: early cassette releases of Murmur list a Cover Version of "There She Goes Again" by the Velvet Underground as the closing track, and indeed this was the initial plan for the album. However, the song was removed at the last minute both to make every song on the record original and to ensure that the band wouldn't have to take a royalty cut. "There She Goes Again" would ultimately surface as the B-Side to the Murmur version of "Radio Free Europe", before being included on the Dead Letter Office rarities compilation and as a bonus track on the 1992 The I.R.S. Years CD reissue of Murmur, indexed in its originally intended spot on the tracklist. | |
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Sometimes, even whole alternate modes are Dummied Out of the official instructions. Beast Machines Silverbolt has a very odd design with his robot-mode legs awkwardly arranged with no rhyme or reason in bird mode—fans discovered a much more feasible 'griffin' mode that was not mentioned in the instructions. Transformers: Robots in Disguise Megatron has four entire alternate modes omitted, given that he was somehow advertised with ten modes instead of six the next time they repainted and reissued his toy.explanationThe original Car Robots Gigatron figure was actually designed with only six modes, although fiddling around with the figure generated four additional modes. It received a slight retooling to supposedly better accommodate these new modes and was released by Takara as Devil Gigatron. It was that version of the mold that was released by Hasbro as both RiD Megatron and Galvatron, with only the original six modes documented in Megatron's instructions. | |
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Fortune_Lover_(TGS Beta)(SARU_rip)[T+Eng0.75_Sincere].zip: According to the Character Narrator, the Nicol route was not included in the Fortune Lover beta demonstrated (and leaked) in the Tokyo Game Show. This extends to the titular Game Mod; as any attempt for Parasite_Ib to trigger that route makes the game to crash. | |
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The lyric sheet to Flood by They Might Be Giants includes a third verse to "Road Movie To Berlin" that is unheard on the studio recording - Word of God has varied as to whether the band had decided the song was a little too long or the verse was simply "inadvertently left out". Live performances of the song almost always include the missing verse. | |
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Using the "view source" button on some pages here at TV Tropes will reveal commented-out lines in the wiki markup (lines which begin with %% are comments). At times, these may include examples that were Dummied Out because they didn't meet the Wiki standards (such as Zero Content Examples), but weren't completely removed in hopes that some troper, someday, would save them. | |
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Japan's Gentlemen Take Polaroids, which lists "Some Kind of Fool" which is still unreleased, save a much later David Sylvian rerecording. The album plays "Burning Bridges", and a sticker was included to highlight this. As a result of its omission, the planned inner sleeve with lyrics was omitted entirely as it was too costly to remake the ones without the "Some Kind of Fool" lyrics. Sylvian has repeatedly vetoed the release of the original due to dissatisfaction with his lyrics, much to fans' annoyance. | |
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Jawbreaker, a Beast Wars character, originally had an extra jaw hinge to make a more convincing hand from his hyena head in robot mode, but extra tabs were added to prevent it doing so. There doesn't seem to be any particular reason why, either, since it's neither prone to breakage nor results in any more of a choking hazard than without the lock-out. Unlike a lot of other examples, this one can be "hacked" back in using a razor blade. | |
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A rare tabletop RPG example: the Avalon sourcebook for 7th Sea has a Destiny Spread that grants the character a "1 Point Druidic Secrets Advantage." But Druidic Secrets didn't make it to the printed book. Another one: The first manual for TSR's espionage RPG Top Secret makes several references to an "Intercept Chart" that should be used to resolve certain situations. But it wasn't in the manual. A few months after its release, creator Merle Rasmussen explained in response to a reader letter in Dragon that it had been edited out of the manual in one of the last revisions and should be disregarded. |
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Modern Toku toys (most prominently Kamen Rider) are two-piece arrangements, consisting of the core toy (a Transformation Trinket, for instance) and a multitude of smaller collectables that combine for full functionality. More often than not the core toy has all the electronics while the collectables trigger the sounds by pressing hidden switches or something similar. As a result, fans have been able to access the sound boards, which not only reveals a character's powers before they appear in the show but sometimes reveals functions that never came up at all, either in the TV show or in the toy line. Complete Selectionnote A series of high-end, life-sized replicas of Kamen Rider gear aimed at adult consumers version of Kamen Rider Decade's Decadriver belt has transformation sounds for several post-Decade Riders, but the Rider Cards needed to access them weren't made until much later. Similarly, "hacking" Kamen Rider Ghost's Ghost Driver belt revealed a bunch of historical figures whose powers were never invoked in the TV series but appeared in the arcade game Ganbarizing, like Galileo Galilei, King Kamehameha, and Santa Claus. One "hero" whose powers never appeared in either the series or the game was Kamen Rider's creator, Shotaro Ishinomori. Both the Power Rangers Megaforce Legendary Morpher and Power Rangers Dino Charge Dino Charge Morpher have sounds that aren't triggered by any of the available Ranger Keys or Dino Chargers, including holiday greetings and in the case of the Dino Charge Morpher, a message reminding kids to brush their teeth, likely from a scrapped promotional item to be given out with toothpaste or at dentist offices. |
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In Free Guy, some dummied-out content exists within the game Free City. Namely, the environment of another game, Life Itself, which Free City was hastily ported onto when its code was stolen by Soonami. The setting was pushed back behind Free City's skybox with a boundary imposed to keep players from finding it (one managed to, but his method was subsequently patched out), but the game's reflection engine continues to show it clear as day. | |
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CrossCode has the Vermillion Wasteland, a region built early in CrossWorlds' history but put on hold. Benedict Sidwell repurposed that place as the Evotarground, where he made his experiments and interrogations of Evotars, AI clones of humans. Lea originally came from there, being the first stable Evotar. | |
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It's not uncommon for stickers to be used to hide/correct erroneous information that has been discovered on a product's packaging before the product is distributed but after it's too late to change the packaging itself. Seeing what content is underneath is as easy as removing the sticker. For example, the PAL release of No Man's Sky special edition infamously had a sticker covering part of the box indicating the game had multiplayer functionality. | |
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On the topic of Voyager-class Starscreams, the Revenge of the Fallen Voyager Starscream was originally meant to have hinges in his hands that would allow them to fold over on themselves to hide them in vehicle mode, and joints that would allow his arm-mounted weaponry to fold further out. While neither of these exist on the final toy, both are visible in his instruction sheet. | |
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Voyager-class Starscream from Transformers: Cybertron has space for batteries and a speaker, and even some of the circuitry for sound effects, but in all of its releases, the mold has never featured sound effects. | |
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Occasionally, Transformers toys will have features taken out during production. One of the most famous is Hoist from Transformers: Armada, which was intended to have a geared gimmick similar to that of Cyclonus. Armada Hot Shot's Powerlinx figure instruction sheet includes an illustration showing his visor being movable over his eyes like on the show, but on the actual figure his visor is molded to his head. This is due to using the same instructions as his original toy, which did have a flip-down visor. Voyager-class Starscream from Transformers: Cybertron has space for batteries and a speaker, and even some of the circuitry for sound effects, but in all of its releases, the mold has never featured sound effects. On the topic of Voyager-class Starscreams, the Revenge of the Fallen Voyager Starscream was originally meant to have hinges in his hands that would allow them to fold over on themselves to hide them in vehicle mode, and joints that would allow his arm-mounted weaponry to fold further out. While neither of these exist on the final toy, both are visible in his instruction sheet. The Generation 1 toys that were derived from the Diaclone series had "pilot seats" meant for the mini-figures that were included with the original toys. Many of the missile launchers, especially on the reissues, were weakened or disabled. Megatron's original toy could actually load and fire small plastic bullets. Given how Megatron's toy very accurately resembles a small automatic handgun in his alternate mode, Hasbro saw the potential problems well in advance and disabled the feature before someone shot their eye out or, worse yet, was shot by mistake by someone thinking that the toy was a real gun. A large number of Transformers molds are designed such that you can 'backlight' their eyes by shining a light on a section of their head with translucent plastic called a "light pipe". A significant number of Transformers figures have this feature painted over so you can't use it, but the translucent eyes are still there. Canny toy modders use this to implement their own backlighting. Some, however, have the light pipe parts left unpainted but cast in opaque colors, preventing it from being easily changed back. Sometimes, even whole alternate modes are Dummied Out of the official instructions. Beast Machines Silverbolt has a very odd design with his robot-mode legs awkwardly arranged with no rhyme or reason in bird mode—fans discovered a much more feasible 'griffin' mode that was not mentioned in the instructions. Transformers: Robots in Disguise Megatron has four entire alternate modes omitted, given that he was somehow advertised with ten modes instead of six the next time they repainted and reissued his toy.explanationThe original Car Robots Gigatron figure was actually designed with only six modes, although fiddling around with the figure generated four additional modes. It received a slight retooling to supposedly better accommodate these new modes and was released by Takara as Devil Gigatron. It was that version of the mold that was released by Hasbro as both RiD Megatron and Galvatron, with only the original six modes documented in Megatron's instructions. When the Transformers design team discovered that the locking point for the first Transformers: Prime Ultra Magnus' gun didn't have enough traction to hold it in hammer mode, the port was made shallower so that it couldn't be used and a new one was put above it in a more functional location. Jawbreaker, a Beast Wars character, originally had an extra jaw hinge to make a more convincing hand from his hyena head in robot mode, but extra tabs were added to prevent it doing so. There doesn't seem to be any particular reason why, either, since it's neither prone to breakage nor results in any more of a choking hazard than without the lock-out. Unlike a lot of other examples, this one can be "hacked" back in using a razor blade. The Combiner Wars Bombshell figure appears to have been originally intended to have a third mode as a gun for a larger figure, which was the case for several other toys of the same size in that line. While the toy still has some 5mm pegs that could be used as handles, it doesn't have anything in its instructions for transforming into a weapon mode. It's still possible to figure something out by being creative. |
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Complete Selectionnote A series of high-end, life-sized replicas of Kamen Rider gear aimed at adult consumers version of Kamen Rider Decade's Decadriver belt has transformation sounds for several post-Decade Riders, but the Rider Cards needed to access them weren't made until much later. | |
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